Zinc And Vitamin B6

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Hi this is my first time posting on this site (i go on it a lot but never post) and i wanted to ask something about zinc and vitamin B6. i understand that B6 helps absorption of zinc but from the information I've gathered Vitamin B6 it really bad for acne. i'm planing on taking blackmores bio zinc. it has 25 mg of zinc ( i'll take 50 mg, one in the morning and one at night), 25 mg of magnesium, 2 mg of manganese, 2500 IU and 50 mg of vit B6. n ow im taking 2 a day so that makes 100 mg of B6. should i still take it even though it has that much B6? if you take/have taken zinc can you tell me how much B6 is in it and if it did anything bad to you. also are the effect of zinc permanent or will my oily skin come back once i stop using it.

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i am a 14 year old boy and i'm not really taking it for any pimples. im taking it for my SUPER oily skin which started around 6 months ago (so its probably hormonal) and I've tried a lot to control it but no luck. i only have like one white head and a ton of blackhead all over my face (though they're not really noticeable) and some wired tiny little pimples on my cheeks and neck (also not really noticeable).

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Hmmm, I've never seen b6 is bad for acne, just the opposite actually, but they say it's good for females Pms acne because of ow it affects hormones in women. I see you're both men so idk what to say... I only look at female acne issues, but they're usually the same.

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Hmmm, I've never seen b6 is bad for acne, just the opposite actually, but they say it's good for females Pms acne because of ow it affects hormones in women. I see you're both men so idk what to say... I only look at female acne issues, but they're usually the same.

Deterioration of acne vulgaris or eruption of an acneiform exanthema could be established during treatment with vitamin B6 and/or vitamin B12 in 14 patients. Females were by far the more frequently affected. The appearance of skin symptoms, even outside the age groups typically affected by acne vulgaris is characteristic. The clinical appearance of acneiform exanthema occurring during treatment with vitamin B6 or B12 consists of loosely disseminated small papules or papulopustules on the face (especially on the forehead and chin), on the upper parts of the back and chest and spreading to the upper arm. The pathogensis of the change is not yet certain. The acneiform rash generally fades within a short time after vitamin B6 or vitamin B12 treatment has been stopped

interesting now that i think about it i started getting some acne on my neck that i have never had before since i started that pill.

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I've seen the opposite, lol. It has been said to help the receptors resist androgens. I'd link but i Can't do so on my iPad. I guess it's inconclusive for acne.

are you sure?. i mean all you have to do is type in vitamins that are bad for acne or vitamin B6 and acne into google and there will be tons of things saying that B6 and B12 are really bad for your acne.